Good news! Google+ is dying. Google tried herding people into their stupid social network so aggressively that even the use of gmail became too complex and drama-ridden.
Here is also a link to Google Graveyard, a list of all the idiotic initiatives Google tried to implement that turned out to be a complete waste of time. Of course, nobody minded Google’s strange experimenting until the company grew desperate an started trying to force or trick people into using its bizarre inventions.
I loved Google Reader before they killed it. I still use some Google services, but I’m always on the lookout for alternatives and I’ll never trust them not to take something good away on a whim.
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Google covertly threatened businesses that their search engine rankings would fall back, if they didn’t have a Google Plus profile. They suggested the same to journalists who didn’t participate in the Google Authorship program (which they officially dropped this August). This was a really effective marketing strategy, the only problem was that customers still didn’t care about Google Plus. Fortunately I don’t need an exit plan as the article above recommends, as I had only 1 follower. One of my favourite (and very popular) art gallery had only 3 (and almost 17,000 on Facebook), and this tells everything about the efficiency of Google Plus.
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Every time Google brought me into Google+, I’d exit the browser immediately. But still, they persisted. That is do obnoxious.
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Yes, that was superannoying. There was no way to get rid of it. The failure of Google Plus proves that annoying the hell out of users isn’t the best strategy.
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“OH NOEZ … Launcher3 has died!”
Yes, Google, because I switched off Google+ for my Android phone since I get dragged into its obnoxiousness fairly regularly otherwise …
No exit plan here — I never entered the Google Internet Dormitory+. 🙂
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